Political Quotes

“I, too, wish to express my appreciation to everyone who worked today. The thing I enjoyed most of all was the recess subject to the call of the Chair. One thing we all acknowledge that we need to do is to prevent automatic cuts to doctors under Medicare because it is not only important to the doctors, it is also important to the patients--the so- called sustainable growth rate, or SGR--and we need to reauthorize the Children's Health Insurance Program. There is a lot of stuff in the bill that passed the House. They got 392 votes on that. That is a rare vote over there. I am pleased they did that. We are willing, over here, to proceed with this matter tonight. As I indicated to the leader earlier on today, we had hoped we could get this done, but I understand it is late, whatever day it is. It is a bill that is 362 pages long. We are willing to move forward. I am disappointed we may not be able to get it done tonight. I sure wish we could. If we can't, I hope the majority leader will move to this matter as soon as we get back here after the recess. It is a very important piece of legislation that we all acknowledge we need to do. I understand we want to help the physicians. I acknowledge that, but remember, those Medicare physicians take care of people who are badly in need of health care. It is not only for the doctors that we need to do this, we need to do it for their patients. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader. Mr. McCONNELL. Mr.…”